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TotalEnergies' Antwerp refinery secured a EUR 227.9 million EU Innovation Fund grant agreement for ARCaDe, a carbon-capture-and-DeNOx retrofit project, as part of the same six-project reserve-list cohort documented in this register's CorPower Ocean/VianaWave filing (2025-07-22): CINEA's IF23Call reserve list released additional budget after eight of the originally selected 85 projects withdrew from grant-agreement preparation in the March 2025 signing round, allowing six reserve-list projects — spanning refinery decarbonisation (ARCaDe/Belgium), hydrogen (ECHO-WAVE/Luxembourg), green heat (GRHENA/Spain), hydrogen production (H2M Eemshaven/Netherlands), plastics recycling (LARS/Germany), and ocean energy (VianaWave/Portugal-Sweden) — to sign in their place on 22 July 2025. GTA's state-act record carries an earlier announced/implemented date of 2025-07-08, which reflects the European Commission's original IF23Call approval/selection decision; the CINEA press release confirming the actual signed grant agreement is dated 2025-07-22 and is used here as the effective date, following the same convention applied to the sibling VianaWave filing.
At EUR 227.9 million, ARCaDe is the largest of the six-project cohort (more than five times CorPower's EUR 40 million VianaWave grant), reflecting the greater capital intensity of refinery-scale carbon capture retrofits versus smaller demonstration-scale renewable-energy projects.
decarbonisation, not just renewable-generation or battery-manufacturing capacity — carbon capture and DeNOx retrofits at an existing refinery represent a distinct industrial-policy target from the gigafactory/ hydrogen-electrolyser grant series (Novo Energy, ACC/ACCEPT, Verkor/AGATHE, LG Energy Wrocław) also tracked in this register.
non-dilutive capital directly to named commercial entities via CINEA grant agreements, financed through EU ETS revenues rather than general-budget subsidies.
and national decarbonisation capital (see also the separate EUR 260 million Belgian state-aid approval for the unrelated Air Liquide/BASF Kairos@C carbon-capture project at the same port), reinforcing Antwerp's position as a focal point for European industrial decarbonisation investment.
milestone schedule) for ARCaDe — not disclosed in the CINEA press release.
(ECHO-WAVE/Luxembourg, GRHENA/Spain, H2M Eemshaven/Netherlands, LARS/Germany) warrant separate individual filings in this register.